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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 11
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All men speak the same language—They build tower of Babel—The Lord confounds their language and scatters them over all the earth—The generations of Shem include Abram whose wife was Sarai—Abram leaves Ur and settles Haran.
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And</span> the whole earth was of one <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Language.">language</a>, and of one speech.
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And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 10: 10; Gen. 14: 1; Dan. 1: 2.">Shinar</a>; and they dwelt there.
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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly.  And they had brick for stone, and <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/3a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR bitumen; Gen. 14: 10.">slime</a> had they for morter.
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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top <i>may reach</i> unto heaven; and let us make us a <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Name.">name</a>, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said, Behold, the people <i>is</i> one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/7a" mark="a" type="C" title="Omni 1: 22; Mosiah 28: 17; TG Communication.">language</a>, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
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So the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> did there <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB balal, ‘mix,’ ‘confound’ (a word play on Babel).">confound</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/11/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Language.">language</a> of all the earth: and from thence did the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/11/9c" mark="c" type="C" title="1 Ne. 10: 13 (12-13); TG Book of Mormon.">scatter</a> them <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/11/9d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ether 1: 33 (33-43).">abroad</a> upon the face of all the earth.
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&#182; These <i>are</i> the generations of Shem: Shem <i>was</i> an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Dividing of.">Peleg</a>:
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And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
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And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Abr. 2: 1 (1-4).">Terah</a>:
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And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Abr. 2: 1 (1-2).">Terah</a> lived seventy years, and begat <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/11/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 3: 34 (34-36); Hel. 8: 18 (16-19); D&C 136: 37; Abr. 1: 1.">Abram</a>, Nahor, and Haran.
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&#182; Now these <i>are</i> the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 1: 17; Abr. 1: 1, 20 (20, 29-30); Abr. 2: 4 (1, 4).">Chaldees</a>.
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And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife <i>was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 12: 5; Abr. 2: 2.">Sarai</a>; and the name of Nahor’s wife, <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/11/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 22: 20; Gen. 24: 15; Abr. 2: 2.">Milcah</a>, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
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But Sarai was <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Barrenness.">barren</a>; she <i>had</i> no child.
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And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/11/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 7: 4 (2, 4).">Chaldees</a>, to go into the land of <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/11/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Abr. 2: 3 (1-4), 19 (6, 15-19).">Canaan</a>; and they came unto <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/11/31c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 12: 5; Gen. 24: 4; Acts 7: 2 (2-3); Abr. 2: 4 (1-6, 14).">Haran</a>, and dwelt there.
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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